Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Platform Engineer with 20 years of experience in software development, including six years in financial services. I lead end-to-end platform migrations into production, transitioning systems such as Sitecore and SAP Commerce to a bank’s content platform on Azure. DevOps workflows behind them using Jenkins, Spinnaker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Kept systems reliable with an observability stack built on Dynatrace, Splunk, and Grafana, backed by clear SLI/SLO definitions and burn-rate alerting.
Solo platform owner · coordinates contractors, vendors and internal teams · production first
Based in San Ramon, CA · U.S. citizen · Open to Bay Area hybrid and US remote
Skills
Languages
C#
Python
TypeScript
Java
Bash
PowerShell
Groovy
GraphQL
T-SQL
PL/SQL
Web & backend
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Web API
React
Spring
Sitecore
SAP Commerce Cloud
Cloud
AWS EC2
ECS
S3
VPC
IAM
SageMaker
CloudWatch
Azure Application Gateway
Azure VNets
Azure SQL
Infrastructure & containers
Terraform
CloudFormation
Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
CI/CD
Jenkins
Spinnaker
Bitbucket
GitHub Actions
Azure Pipelines
TFS
Artifactory
Blue-green
Rolling deploys
Reliability
SLOs & SLIs
Error budgets
On-call
Blameless postmortems
Grafana
Prometheus
Dynatrace
Splunk
New Relic
Distributed tracing
AI/ML platform
AWS SageMaker
MLOps pipelines
GitHub Copilot
MCP connectors
Security & data
DevSecOps
SOX
PCI
GDPR
Least-privilege IAM
Secrets management
Veracode
SonarQube
SQL Server
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Solr
Edge
Akamai Kona
GTM
WAF
SiteShield
Edge Redirector
NetStorage
Architecture and design
Software Design
Software Architecture
Agile Methodologies
SDLC
Distributed Systems
Software Observability
Leadership and delivery
Technical Leadership
Technical Project Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Actively building
Go
GitOps with Argo CD
OpenTelemetry
GCP
Experience
Jul 2023 – Aug 2026 3 yrs 1 mo
JPMorgan ChaseJPMorgan Chase is a global financial services firm and the largest U.S. bank by assets. Its headquarters is in New York. Ram worked in San Francisco, first on platform and reliability for line-of-business teams across AWS, private cloud, private Kubernetes cloud, and MLOps platform, then as an SRE on the enterprise AI/ML platform. · San Francisco, CA
Site Reliability & Platform Engineer (2023–2026)
Platform and reliability engineering for Line of Business application teams across AWS and the firm’s private cloud — the reliability layer between LOB developers and regulated infrastructure. Defined what healthy meant, carried the on-call that proved it, and built the pipelines and IaC those teams shipped on.
Defined and tracked SLOs and SLIs for distributed microservices, building Grafana dashboards on Prometheus metrics to monitor error budgets, infrastructure health, FinOps spend, and SLA compliance across AWS and private cloud.
Ran on-call incident response for high-availability distributed systems — triaged production incidents, drove root-cause analysis and blameless postmortems, and authored runbooks that reduced mean time to resolution by 30%.
Performed capacity planning for Kubernetes clusters on the firm’s private cloud running on Linux/Unix hosts — right-sizing resource requests and limits, tuning Docker deployments, and managing cluster setup and deployment manifests to prevent over-provisioning.
Authored and maintained Terraform and CloudFormation modules provisioning AWS and private cloud infrastructure for compliance-driven migrations, eliminating configuration drift and manual deployment effort.
Built CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Spinnaker for Line of Business application teams, supporting blue-green and rolling deployments to AWS ECS and private cloud.
Automated environment validation, deployment verification, and operational toil reduction in Python, PowerShell, and Bash across AWS and private-cloud estates.
Configured Dynatrace distributed tracing, custom tagging, and synthetic monitors, and built Splunk dashboards, reports, and alerts to strengthen end-to-end observability and incident detection.
Managed Control-M scheduled job workflows and tuned failure alerting and escalation paths to shorten time to detection.
Kubernetes
Terraform
CloudFormation
Docker
Python
Java
Jenkins
Spinnaker
Dynatrace
Splunk
RHEL
Infrastructure as code
Private Clouds
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Services
Cloud Cost Optimization
Bash
PowerShell
CI/CD
Artifactory
Git
Jules
GitHub Copilot
Grafana
Splunk Enterprise
ServiceNow
Oracle Database
Reliability Engineering
Incident Response
Disaster Recovery
Microservices
Machine Learning
Large Language Models
Capacity Planning
MLOps platform (2026)
SRE for the enterprise AI/ML platform. Brought in to move the firm's MLOps estate onto a new SageMaker-based framework without interrupting inference for downstream consumers, and to put automated validation and reliability tooling around models running in production.
Re-platformed enterprise MLOps workloads onto AWS SageMaker, migrating to new AWS accounts across all environments from scratch while preserving model availability for downstream consumers.
Engineered Python automation that validates AI/ML model inference endpoints, running automated regression checks that catch inference degradation before it reaches production.
Standardized CI/CD model promotion for model-serving infrastructure, making deployments consistent and repeatable across development, test, and production.
Championed AI-assisted development with GitHub Copilot and VS Code, accelerating delivery of infrastructure code, automation scripts, and test coverage across the team.
AWS
SageMaker
Terraform
Python
Java
Docker
MLOps
Jenkins
Spinnaker
Grafana
RHEL
Infrastructure as code
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Services
Bash
CI/CD
Artifactory
Git
Jules
GitHub Copilot
VS Code
Splunk Enterprise
ServiceNow
Machine Learning
Large Language Models
Reliability Engineering
Incident Response
Disaster Recovery
Capacity Planning
Apr 2020 – Jul 2023 3 yrs 3 mos
First Republic BankFirst Republic Bank was a private bank and private-wealth firm. Ram worked in San Francisco as technical lead for its Azure content platform, the platform-side person among a vendor and internal teams. JPMorgan Chase acquired First Republic in 2023. · San Francisco, CA
Technical Lead – Platform
Technical lead for the bank's Azure-hosted Sitecore platform, owning it end to end — secure cloud architecture and infosec review, edge delivery, observability, disaster recovery, and the production on-call rotation — through its major version upgrade.
Led the Sitecore 9.1 → 10.2 upgrade on Azure end to end — authored the cutover plan and Go-Live runbook, then validated VPN tunnels, DNS, TLS certificates, SMTP, and Splunk/New Relic integrations in the upgraded environment.
Ran architecture and information security reviews across Sitecore and Azure App Services, Application Gateway, and Virtual Networks, using Veracode static analysis to validate secure coding practices, and partnered with cloud and on-premises network teams on secure VPN access and firewall exception handling.
Configured real-time alerting in Azure Monitor, New Relic, and Splunk, and served in the rotating on-call SRE rotation supporting platform uptime.
Owned Akamai Kona edge delivery and security — WAF, GTM, SiteShield, and Edge Redirector — and integrated the Akamai NetStorage Usage and Purge APIs into platform tooling.
Improved page load performance through custom Solr indexes and Sitecore/Akamai caching strategies, and exposed platform diagnostics through ASP.NET Web API endpoints backed by Azure SQL.
Ran disaster recovery testing across both on-premises infrastructure and the Azure-hosted Sitecore platform.
Azure
Sitecore
Akamai
C#
TypeScript
ASP.NET Core
React
Docker
Jenkins
New Relic
AWS
Private Clouds
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Services
RHEL
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Web API
.NET Framework
Groovy
Bash
PowerShell
REST
CI/CD
Artifactory
Git
GitHub
Jules
Visual Studio
VS Code
Grafana
Splunk
Splunk Enterprise
ServiceNow
Web Application Firewalls
SSO
Microservices
Reliability Engineering
Incident Response
Disaster Recovery
Capacity Planning
May 2013 – Feb 2020 6 yrs 9 mos
CorsairCorsair designs and makes high-performance gear for gamers, content creators, and PC enthusiasts. Ram worked in Fremont as the only on-site owner of the commerce platform, with a remote contractor team and a marketing partner who owned the website. · Fremont, CA
Senior .NET Engineer (2013–2017)
Full-stack engineer on the commerce platform — customer-facing features plus the internal tooling and third-party integrations behind them, across .NET, Sitecore, and Magento. Primary engineer on two Sitecore platform migrations.
Led migration of the commerce platform to Sitecore 6 and Sitecore 8, moving custom tools, reports, and integrations with PowerShell automation and Docker containers, with no interruption to e-commerce operations.
Built full-stack features and internal tooling in ASP.NET and C# — Sitecore content import/export, backup, and bulk operations — plus REST services delivering content to opsInfo Web/Windows applications.
Automated pricing and inventory synchronization from Magento to Sitecore through Azure Pipelines and deployed Magento promotion and gift-card extensions, improving product data accuracy and reducing sync errors.
Delivered Oracle ERP and Salesforce CRM integrations, analytics/SEO/BI reporting, affiliate product feeds, and Akamai CDN and NetStorage configuration.
C#
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Web API
Sitecore
SQL Server
jQuery
REST
PowerShell
Akamai
New Relic
Visual Studio
Magento Integration
PayPal Integration
Salesforce integration
Lead Commerce Architect (2017–2020)
Architecture and delivery lead for a global e-commerce platform. Owned technology decisions, vendor selection, and release readiness across two successive platform migrations, leading a contractor team through a 12-month program to Go-Live.
Led the SAP Commerce Cloud V2 upgrade end to end in five months, from requirements gathering through Go-Live, managing scope, timeline, and stakeholder alignment.
Ran the Sitecore/Magento to SAP Hybris Commerce Cloud migration across requirements, architecture, development, QA, and training, then validated readiness through automated content quality checks and functional, performance, and user acceptance testing.
Integrated payments, fraud, and tax systems — PayPal and Cybersource for order payments, Cybersource and Zendesk for returns fraud management, and Avalara for US and Canada tax configuration.
Established GDPR data privacy processes and single sign-on across the web store, support portal, and forums using SAP Customer Data Cloud.
Designed and executed the data migration strategy, integrated product feeds with retailer and affiliate partners, and owned Akamai delivery and security configuration.
SAP Commerce Cloud
Azure
Java
C#
TypeScript
Sitecore
Akamai
React
ASP.NET Core
Jenkins
SQL Server
ASP.NET Web API
PowerShell
jQuery
Visual Studio
Git
GitHub
Splunk Enterprise
New Relic
SSO
PayPal Integration
Cybersource Integration
Salesforce integration
Zendesk Integration
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Services
Microservices
Incident Response
Jan 2006 – Feb 2013 7 yrs 1 mo
ESPESP was an environmental software company that sold sustainability tools to enterprise clients. Ram worked in Santa Clara as a senior software engineer on opsInfo, its reporting product. ESP was later acquired by IHS Markit. · Santa Clara, CA
Senior Software Engineer
Full-stack engineer on opsInfo, an enterprise environmental and sustainability reporting product. Worked the whole stack — web framework, REST APIs, admin UI, reporting engine, and backend services — for a product deployed to enterprise clients across multiple countries.
Designed and built the web framework, REST APIs, and single-page Admin UI for the opsInfo web product, cutting page load times to under two seconds through advanced caching and query batching.
Re-platformed the reporting engine onto .NET to meet scalability demands and enable Unicode multi-language support, extending the product to 7 languages and new international markets.
Engineered integration APIs giving third-party products customizable access to opsInfo data, and built Windows services for asynchronous data processing plus diagnostics and upgrade tooling that cut client support inquiries.
C#
.NET Framework
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Web API
SQL Server
Oracle Database
jQuery
Visual Studio
Work projects
JPMorgan Chase · Jul 2023 – Jan 2026
Kubernetes observability standard
Wrote the Dynatrace and Splunk standard for the private Kubernetes platform — tracing, tagging, synthetics, and dashboards — as reusable assets. Onboarded about 11 application teams; other teams adopted it from the documentation.
Kubernetes
Dynatrace
Splunk
Grafana
Prometheus
JPMorgan Chase · Jan 2026 – Aug 2026
MLOps on AWS
Re-platformed production ML onto SageMaker in new AWS accounts without interrupting inference, and gated model promotion with Python checks. That AWS work sat alongside other applications, including an anti-money-laundering app.
AWS
SageMaker
Python
Terraform
Grafana
First Republic Bank · Apr 2020 – Jul 2023
Azure content-platform migration
Led the bank’s content platform onto Azure in 8 months against a typical 12-month timeline, through a clean go-live with no loss of availability.
Azure
Azure Application Gateway
Azure VNets
Sitecore
Akamai
Corsair · May 2013 – Jan 2017
Sitecore content backup and migration
Built Sitecore tooling that backed up every content item into source control for history and rollback, and converted legacy layouts into responsive layouts during the migration.
Sitecore
ASP.NET
C#
PowerShell
Corsair · Jan 2017 – Feb 2020
Commerce platform migrations
Led a 12-month move from Sitecore and Magento to SAP Hybris with four contractors, then the SAP Commerce Cloud V2 upgrade in five months.
SAP Commerce Cloud
Java
Spring
Akamai
ESP (later IHS Markit) · Jan 2006 – Feb 2013
opsInfo APIs from scratch
Built the web framework, REST APIs, and single-page admin UI for the opsInfo product essentially from scratch, and brought page loads under two seconds.
ASP.NET
C#
REST
Personal projects
AWS
Investor Dashboard
Portfolio and operations visibility for investor workflows, hosted on AWS. Python collection jobs, Terraform, and a static dashboard behind CloudFront.
Python libraries for cloud operations: inventory, guarded changes, Kubernetes helpers, and access-log checks. Dry-run by default, with timeouts and structured logs.
Answers member questions from dated website snapshots, with citations, conflict resolution, and abstention when the snapshot does not say. Practice score 0.969 on the public 40-question eval.